Re: How to update my system

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:15:56 -0500
sam wrote:
> Jim Thompson wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:35 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Reboot into single user mode, remount root with mount -u, then:
>>>
>>> cd /usr/src
>>> make installworld
>>
>>
>>
>> I keep seeing this, and its all fine and dandy, I even understand  
>> some of the reasons why its a good idea.
>>
>> But friends, I, and probably a million other people, run FreeBSD in  
>> colo space, and in my case, its a 3000 mile
>> trip (across the ocean, so I can't even drive) to go visit the poor  
>> machines.
>>
>> So, what about a short discussion on the risks of ignoring the  
>> request to go to single-user?
>>
>> and yeah, I know about serial consoles.
>>
> I guess you are talking about binary update. This had been discuessed 
> million times in the newsgroup. I feel that if you have a handy tool of 
> binary update thru the www, that will be able to bring you a happy 
> profit. There was an open-source server code called binary update, it 
> keeps in private sector now. That company is using it offers service to 
> freebsd community. If you want to join them you can pay them a fair 
> amount of dollars then you can have your freebsd system binary update 
> regularly thru their server.

Are you talking about this:

http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 12:16:18 UTC

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